| "Criminal Hatred" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 14.12 | → |
| Production number: 14012 First aired (US): 30 January 2013 First aired (UK): 5 March 2013 First aired (CAN): 30 January 2013 First aired (AUS): 21 March 2013 | ||
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| Written By Ed Zuckerman Directed By Adam Bernstein | ||
A.D.A. Barba tries a murder case against an unpredictable defense attorney in a showdown that stretches the boundaries of the law.
Summary[]
The SVU detectives go undercover to arrest a man who targets and brutally attacks other men. They gather enough evidence for A.D.A. Barba to file charges, but the case begins to spiral as he contends with a deceptively tough defense attorney.
Plot[]
With Mason's help, the detectives locate the bracelet which has the victim's blood on it and Jones' fingerprints. At the bail hearing on the unlawful imprisonment charge, Barba agrees to a reduction to $5,000 and then has Jones arrested by Benson and Fin. Jones is enraged, calling his apologizing husband a homophobic slur and raging at pleading his lawyer by spitting in her face. Guards then detain the angry Jones.
After he's escorted out, Fin asks Efron if she is alright and she tells the detectives she is fine. She tells everyone that she has realized the truth about Jeremy. She says the detectives were wrong that he doesn't just hate gays, as Benson states he hates everyone but Barba corrects her saying he hates himself.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Danny Pino as Detective Nick Amaro
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch (credit only)
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen (credit only)
Recurring Cast[]
- Nia Vardalos as Attorney Minonna Efron
- Victoria Rowell as Judge Delilah Hawkins
- Raúl Esparza as A.D.A. Rafael Barba
- Miguel Pinzon as Jace
Guest Cast[]
- Paul Fitzgerald as Charles Murphy
- Max Carpenter as Jeremy Jones
- Jenny Bacon as Laurel Dunlevy
- Annika Boras as Melissa Murphy
- Wass Stevens as Curren
- Fred Norris as Leon
- Andres Quintero as Mason Clark
- Jeff Talbott as Curtis Armstrong
- James Lloyd Reynolds as Ethan Jackson
- Greg Connolly as Todd Wyman
- Tationna Bosier as Ingrid
- Anne-Marie Cusson as Jury Forewoman
- Connor Priest as Hunter Murphy
References[]
Episode references
Quotes[]
- Tutuola: [while going undercover] Hey, come on, Nick, you gotta neaten it up, man. You can't be all messy cruising a gay bar.
- Amaro: Hey, we can't all look like Al Sharpton.
- Benson: "Did you kiss him?" Nick, he's a victim.
- Amaro: He's a victim in search of a crime. Look, if he'd have gotten into that Mercedes with his family and driven to Connecticut--
- Benson: You mean like he was supposed to?
- Amaro: All I'm saying is he would have been fine.
- Benson: I'm just wondering, would you challenge a straight marriage like this?
- Barba: If I thought the husband was good for a murder, I'd cross-examine the priest.
- Tutuola: [after a stripper greets him] An acquaintance from my undercover days.
- Stripclub owner: Jone's address.
- Rollins: Really? You're undercover name was 'Detective Tutuola'?
- Benson: You're gonna argue that a gay man married to another gay man hates gays?
- Barba: Watch me.
- Ms. Efron: [during her opening statement] What am I thinking right now? That I wish I'd had a second cup of coffee before court this morning, or that Mr. Barba's prosecution is so wrong that he should be taken out and shot? You can't tell, can you? And what does it matter? Do I deserve to be punished for something that's only inside my head?
- Barba: Objection. Ms. Efron is arguing the wisdom of the law and not making an opening statement.
- Judge Delilah Hawkins: Ms. Efron, watch yourself.
- Ms. Efron: I'm sorry, Your Honor. I don't know what I was thinking.
- Ms. Efron: [about Jeremy Jones] You were wrong about him. He doesn't just hate gays...
- Benson: He hates everyone.
- Barba: No. He hates himself.
Background information and Notes[]
- The episode title is a reference to the hate crime statute.
- Another episode that deals with a man attacking closeted men who go to gay bars without their wives knowing is the episode "Down Low In Hell's Kitchen".
- Rafael Barba attaches hate crimes charges against Jeremy Jones, specifically with hating homosexual men despite being one. Judge Delilah Hawkins, however, tells him to drop that charge after a successful challenge by Jones' attorney, Minonna Efron. Other ADAs have mentioned trying to add hate crimes charges to rape:
- Kim Greylek mentioned she wanted to be the first ADA to charge rape as a hate crime in the season 10 episode "Trials", though she never got the chance. She did threaten to do so to Noah Sibert though.
- Barba's mentee, Dominick Carisi, Jr., attaches a hate crimes charge to the suspects in the season 23 episode "Promising Young Gentlemen". The suspects though end up taking pleas without being charged with a hate crime.
Episode scene cards[]
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Smoke Shop |
Rixton Hotel |
Townhouse of |
Supreme Court |
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Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
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